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Sep 3, 2016

Republicans Demonstrate How To Kill People With Rhetoric (Something We Know Can Be Done Since The 1900s!)... Can Regular Citizens Get Secret Service Protection Too?

Fox News can say anything because of free speech YET we have this strange example of the Secret Service talking to Donald Trump about one of his comments that caused a different sort of controversy than normal. What he said was this;

Everyone believed that saying such things encourages people under your influence to act out, either directly or indirectly. Turns out everyone believes that a powerful person can kill someone just with words! For example here is an extract from a History website;These measures, along with threats on the president’s life, were kept quiet. For example, on one occasion, when the press reported in July 1900 that McKinley had been threatened by anarchists, the federal government did not comment on the matter. In fact, the president’s protectors did everything they could to stem the story because they discovered that there was a strong correlation between inflammatory rhetoric, actual threats, copycat threats, and potential attacks. As Wilkie presciently wrote to Cortelyou in August 1901, “I am not insensible to the fact that incendiary talk frequently results in serious action by some individual who may be suffering real or fancied wrongs at the hands of a person in power.”

That would suggest that if EVERY citizen had protection from the last law enforcement agency in the States (the Secret Service) then much of Fox News "free speech" would have to be edited or they would have to be dealt with in some manner to help them fit into a modern civilized society.

Here is a list of some of the things that Fox News - or it's protected by Fox News allies - have said to kill people in the past and got away with it. I was wondering if the Secret Service could take a look at it and expand thier services to include ALL citizens and not just the very important ones. It's not right to allow Fox/GOP to kill people with rhetoric and roam free without any consequences. The rest of this post documents such crimes by the GOP (please Secret Service, you are this nations last hope!)

Back when Fox News was using incendiary rhetoric on liberals and general and Sarah Palin put a "cross hairs" on a senator that led to her and a Judge getting shot. The media managed to avoid all the causes of the event

Since the above the planned parenthood shooting happened, clearly, inspired by another Fox News personality, Carly Fiorina (who used a standard Fox News tactic in defense as the Nazi example above in the Dialy Show video)

Media Matters Commentary: Chris Cuomo: It "Seems As Though" The CO Shooter "Was Influenced By Some Of The Rhetoric ... That Painted A Very Ugly Picture, An Unfair One, About Planned Parenthood" - CNN's Cuomo To Carly Fiorina: The Planned Parenthood Smear Videos "Were Edited. You Know That"

CHRIS CUOMO: Now, when we're looking with what happened here in Colorado, very often you've said Ttrump has to watch what he says, it has implications. Do you feel any sense of regret about how you characterized what was going on at Planned Parenthood after the attack in Colorado? Because of what the man said, which seems as though he was influenced by some of the rhetoric that was coming out of you and others that painted a very ugly picture, an unfair one, about Planned Parenthood?

CARLY FIORINA: Oh, please, really, Chris? Look, nine videotapes have come out about Planned Parenthood. It is very clear what they have been doing. And in fact, Planned Parenthood several weeks ago made a quiet little announcement that they would no longer accept compensation for the sale of what they call fetal tissue. That's about as close to an admission as you can get. In fact, it is an admission.

CUOMO: That's not what they say.

FIORINA: Look what happened in Colorado -- what happened in Colorado is a terrible thing. This guy is a deranged murderer, and I hope he is put away for life. It may be that we should be classifying that as domestic terrorism, as well. But that has nothing to do with the truth of what is going on in Planned Parenthood. And this is a typical left wing tactic, to try and shut down the truth by silencing people. This has happened over and over and over again.

CUOMO: Miss Fiorina --

FIORINA: Let's focus on -- yes?

CUOMO: The question doesn't go away. The videos were edited. You know that. The scenes that were depicted-

FIORINA: I actually, I don't know that. There has been forensic evidence of those nine videotapes over and over again. There have been reports that say they are not edited.

CUOMO: Of course they were edited.

FIORINA: It's amazing to me that we're still having this conversation.

Now here is a list of the killings/murders/acts-of-terror clearly taking place by the Republican Party's Presidential Candidate;

If the Citizens had Secret Service protection then the 4000+ soldiers lost in the Iraq War for oil would be priceless lives that must be protected and not lives whose value can be measured by how much they have added to Halliburton and Cheney's bank account.

If Citizens had Secret Service protection then ...

You know, the word about the weirdness on 9/11 is spreading. The Secret Service is charged with protecting the President. The President in the "Commander in Chief" of the army... who all will blame for covering up 9/11 i.e. who finds out about it. The chances of a President getting killed by some crazy guy goes up the longer the traitors of 9/11 and Iraq aren't dealt with (also, how much of everyday madness can be linked to people who know about 9/11 and will say anything and everything BUT that they know?). Just a thought. Related links;

Quotes

"Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty." - Rumi

"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

"Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history." - Carl Jung

"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society." - George Washington

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison. When the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi